On May 11, 1972, Soviet police arrived at the Kyiv apartment of a young psychiatrist named Semyon Gluzman. Officially, he was charged with spreading “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.” But his real crime, the one officials did not want publicized, was questioning the Soviet Union’s widespread use of psychiatry as a tool of oppression — and…
Shorouk Express Fifty years ago, on the 1st August 1975, the signing of the Helsinki Accords, recognised the inviolability of the borders established after the Second World War. As we know, the Helsinki order lasted approximately fifteen years. The Soviet Union ceased to exist, and the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, which had been…
The failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 has finally met its end after a remarkable 53-year journey in Earth orbit. Launched in 1972 under USSR’s Venera programme, the probe re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on May 10 at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT), with Russia’s space agency Roscosmos confirming its descent over the Indian Ocean, west of…
